Abb Locke

"From The Cotton Fields To Carnegie Hall" Brought up on a farm in Arkansas, worked the fields picking cotton until the age of sixteen. He became homeless but survived through the help of a teacher who let him sleep at the school. He soon started his journey northward to Milwaukee and then Chicago. He is now known as one of the most legendary saxmen of the blues, and has recorded and worked with Buddy Guy (see the Chess box set), Willie Mabon. Earl Ho**er, Albert Collins (they played Carnegie Hall), Koko Taylor, Magic Sam, Eddie Clearwater, Lonnie Brooks, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin Wolf (three or four years in the band and Abb is featured in Wolf's new biography), the Rolling Stones, and many more.